Flatland2D

The headlights in my wife's car (98 Civic, same car as in my other post about dash lights not working) are so crappy you can barely see the road. I'm thinking about buying her some nice aftermarket headlights. I was wondering if ayone had suggestions about projectors or HIDs and price ranges.

We're moving out into the country soon and she could use some headlights that actually work (got to watch out for deer and such).

Thanks!

redline5th

For the time being, polish those yellowed headlights and aim them properly! That is unsafe to drive them when you can barely see the road.

dad0c402

The best headlights you can buy and just put in will be genuine honda. Others may look nice but work like crap glaring everywhere, if it's something like driving out in the country with animals in the road I'd rather go with function then form. If you want put some HID into it. It'll glare at other drivers but you can see a ton more when needed. The other option if your a DIYer would be to clean up the fog housing and retro fit HID projectors from something like a acura TL.

Flatland2D

I might try polishing the old headlights before spending a lot of money. Any favorite tutorials on how to do that? I've tried rubbing compound on them before but that didn't make a difference. I rubbed and rubbed and rubbed and still nothing. Do you have to do it with a power tool maybe?

And yeah, all I care about is function here. This car is completely stock. I don't want it blinding other drivers either. They make decent headlights with good cutoff for this car?

DAVE15401

I used mothers chrome polish on a set of ford rangers yellish headlights and they came out good

Striker_1818

if you want excellent output for the fraction of a cost, HIR's should do you good but you'd have to adapt them for your H4...
Use the ground and Low beam positive for the hiR's and get them into your housing...
1500-2000 lumens should be good
You can also try a retrofit. If you do it urself it'd cost you the same as a pnp kit that's in the range of 250-300.
if you go the HID retrofit route...these are the best projectors for you:
Bixenon: TL, FX,e55 (in that order)
Single xenon: S2000, tsx, ls430/460(no particular order)
The rest projectors are poop